[Istruzioni, memoriali, lettere, ricordi].

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Catholic Church. Pope.

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Papal legates--Holy Roman Empire.

Papal legates.

History.

Italy--History--16th century.

Italy.

Germany--History--16th century.

Germany.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by L. Santacroce [Florence?] (stamp, f. 4r).

Purchased, 1961.

Physical Description:

303 leaves : paper ; 336 x 228 (274 x 180) mm bound to 343 x 232 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1534-1596.

Language Note:

Italian and Latin.

Contents:

1. f.1r-157v: Copies of instructions to legates in the Holy Roman Empire under Popes Paul III, Julius III, and Pius IV; this part ends with instructions by Carlo Borromeo to Carlo Visconti for the Council of Trent, dated 1563.

2. f.157v-187r: Mostly copies of letters concerned with Germany, dated 1537-1560.

3. f.187r-283r: Copies of instructions dated 1592-1596, returning on f. 251 to 1556.

4. f.285r-297r: Miscellaneous copies and concluding with a "Discorso sopra l'unione et ubbidienza delle chiese Alessandrina e Constantina con la sede apostolica" and "Regem Romanorum et archiducem Austriae...esse regem Hungariae triplici titulo...".

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Title on spine: Tomus VI Manuscript.

Foliation: Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 303 + i (contemporary paper); [vi], 1-297; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Front pastedown has come loose and is not included in the leaf count.

Script: Written in a cursive script by several hands.

Binding: Contemporary vellum. Binding completely detached from text block except for a portion of the back pastedown.

Origin: Written in Italy in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 121 (Ms. Italian 141).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 382.

OCLC:

155966365

Access Restriction:

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